United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
579 F.2d 122 · 1978
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably United States v. Cordero (1981), United States v. Richman (1979)
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3150 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3164 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974)
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Bates v. State Bar · Cataldo v. United States · United States v. Simmons
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The responsibility of a defendant to assert his Sixth Amendment right is important to consider because it indicates whether prejudice, “which is not always readily identifiable”, was actually caused to the defendant by the delay. Barker, supra, 407 U.S. at 531 , 92 S.Ct. at 2192 . A nonassertion of this right prior to trial indicates that the defendant may in fact have believed that the delay was to his benefit, in which case he should not be heard to complain at a later date that his right to a speedy trial has been violated. Id. at 521, 528-29, 531-32 , 92 S.Ct. 2182 [2187, 2191, 2192-93].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that [the defendant] did not reassert his alleged desire for a speedy trial when he learned he was going to be transferred to [prison in another state]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rashad v. Walsh“The length of the delay is to some extent a triggering mechanism.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Isaac v. Perrin
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.